This intentional flooding and breaking the Levies' in Mi. that is flooding all that farmland, is/will it effect hunting out there? Is it doing what it was intended to do and save the town upstream? Are the farmers going to be compensated for their loss?
MI? You mean MO? It wasn't just one town that was saved . The flooded area from the blown levees in MO is a designated 'floodway'. So while it sucks for all those folks, they have to accept that this was always part of the 'plan' in a catastropic flood. This is major disaster that isn't over by any means. I really feel for those folks down there.
Yep, Rick... My and a lot of other people's hunting lands are under water right now -- but as you can see above where roofs are barely visible in a lot of photos, there's a lot worse things that can happen. The blowing of the levee is a tough call; this is the area I grew up in, and still live within an hour's drive of it all; our home area now is actually on the Mississippi as well (Cape Girardeau if you want to look it up on a map), but we've got a very tall, super-thick concrete floodwall keeping our city dry. The plan to blow the levee put in place by the Corp of Engineers was first enacted when Cairo was a bustling city on the grow; today, there's less than 2,500 there and most of the residents are burning it down by themselves out of boredom. Unemployment is probably well over 50%, if not 80% and there's not a lot there worth saving. The farmland that's being flooded creates millions of dollars worth of income over the life of the expectancy of the effects of the levee blowing... it's just not that water will rest on the land for a month or more; it's that it's bringing with it several feet of silt. This is literally some of the nation's best farmland period, as fertile as it gets. It could potentially destroy it for generations. There's good arguments on both sides why or why not the levee should have been blown.
I have seen first hand what a tornado can do in NC and what a flood can do in W.Va.. I mean I saw the whole roof of a house going downriver in the swollen river. Don't want anything to do with either. Praying for you folks out that way.
I drove this whole route when driving back from So. IL to Dallas yesterday. Cairo is a mess. I did fine until I hit I40W. Had to take a 103 mile detour in Arkansas as 14 miles of I40 is underwater due to the White River. You can't begin to fathom what these folks are going through until you see it for yourself. My heart really goes out to these people.
